[DEV]TUN, CIFS modules (UPDATE EXP. 4.0.A.2.364) - Xperia Play Android Development

Compiled tun.ko, cifs.ko and slow-work.ko modules for our Xperia Play.
unzip the attached file and
adb push tun.ko /sdcard/
adb push slow-work.ko /sdcard/
adb push cifs.ko /sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system
cp /sdcard/tun.ko /system/lib/modules/
cp /sdcard/slow-work.ko /system/lib/modules/
cp /sdcard/cifs.ko /system/lib/modules/
cd /system/lib/modules/
chmod 644 tun.ko
chmod 644 slow-work.ko
chmod 644 cifs.ko
insmod tun.ko
insmod slow-work.ko
insmod cifs.ko
to mount a share (example, use your own parameters):
# mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASSWORD //192.168.1.5/music /sdcard/music
Or use cifs manager from Market
CIFS Manager
GSCRIPT VERSION by FrAsErTaG
Link: click here
Instructions:
1) if you already use gscript skip to step 3
2) install gscript from market, create a folder on sdcard called gscript
3) extract files from archive to gscript folder on sdcard
4) load gscript press menu, select add script, then select load script
5) MAKE SURE SU is ticked, then run script
6) Enjoy streaming mp3's and avi's from your home/work pc's to your phone
7) Click the thank you button for FrAsErTaG for the gscript.
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ADDED! New modules for firmware 4.0.A.2.364 for testing. Input is needed from ARC/NEO/PLAY if it is working, as I only have the Play, and no new firmware ..

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What does it do?

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NielDK said:
to mount a share (example, use your own parameters):
# mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASSWORD //192.1681.5/music /sdcard/music
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or download cifs manager from the market
awesome work, cant test tonight but will test tomorrow

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svenk919 said:
What does it do?
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Mounts a share from a Windows/Mac/Linux on your device

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FrAsErTaG said:
or download cifs manager from the market
awesome work, cant test tonight but will test tomorrow
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It works
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NielDK said:
It works
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im having trouble getting it to work
busybox ls -lah
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 2.0K May 11 08:20 ←[1;34m.←[0m
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 2.0K May 1 06:41 ←[1;34m..←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 264.0K Apr 20 18:58 ←[0;0mbcm4329.ko←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 3.2M May 11 08:20 ←[0;0mcifs.ko←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 136.4K May 11 08:20 ←[0;0mslow-work.ko←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 217.2K May 11 08:19 ←[0;0mtun.ko←[0m
thats the ls of my /system/lib/modules
So permissions are set correctly
but then
# insmod cifs.ko
insmod cifs.ko
insmod: init_module 'cifs.ko' failed (No such file or directory)
also tried
# insmod /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko
insmod /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko
insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/cifs.ko' failed (No such file or direct
ory)
also tried with busybox commands and from terminal from phone all return that error... any idea?
Im using binary's img

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FrAsErTaG said:
im having trouble getting it to work
busybox ls -lah
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 2.0K May 11 08:20 ←[1;34m.←[0m
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 2.0K May 1 06:41 ←[1;34m..←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 264.0K Apr 20 18:58 ←[0;0mbcm4329.ko←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 3.2M May 11 08:20 ←[0;0mcifs.ko←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 136.4K May 11 08:20 ←[0;0mslow-work.ko←[0m
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 217.2K May 11 08:19 ←[0;0mtun.ko←[0m
thats the ls of my /system/lib/modules
So permissions are set correctly
but then
# insmod cifs.ko
insmod cifs.ko
insmod: init_module 'cifs.ko' failed (No such file or directory)
also tried
# insmod /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko
insmod /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko
insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/cifs.ko' failed (No such file or direct
ory)
also tried with busybox commands and from terminal from phone all return that error... any idea?
Im using binary's img
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Did you insmod the slow-work.ko, it is needed: Do the insmods in this order:
insmod tun.ko
insmod slow-work.ko
insmod cifs.ko
as root.
Seeing my proporties of the files, are they all owned by root? mine are!
chown 0 tun.ko
chgrp 0 tun.ko
chown 0 slow-work.ko
chgrp 0 slow-work.ko
chown 0 cifs.ko
chgrp 0 cifs.ko
Also, my image is not bin4's, but a generic .184 world image, flashed using flashtool. Not sure if it matters, but it really shouldnt.
Tested on company windoze shares, and home Apphmmmm share here.

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Thanks!!!
I got it working...Not sure if it was the adding root, But I may have been doing the insmod in the wrong order...
either way i deleted all the modules and rebooted and then created a gscript that does the job for you, I have uploaded it to mediafire the link is below.
GSCRIPT VERSION
Link: click here
Instructions:
1) if you already use gscript skip to step 3
2) install gscript from market, create a folder on sdcard called gscript
3) extract files from archive to gscript folder on sdcard
4) load gscript press menu, select add script, then select load script
5) MAKE SURE SU is ticked, then run script
6) Enjoy streaming mp3's and avi's from your home/work pc's to your phone
7) Click the thank you button for NielDK at top of this thread.

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FrAsErTaG said:
Thanks!!!
I got it working...Not sure if it was the adding root, But I may have been doing the insmod in the wrong order...
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Cool, added your input to the first post!

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Aw man... I think I searched for cifs.ko for the arc literally hours before you posted this, and thinking there was none, proceeded to spend hours setting up a linux environment and figuring out how to compile this...
oh well I guess i learned something. Thanks for putting it up anyway!

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it works,
however, all the chinese/jap/korean folders and file names turn into "?"
Are there any ways to make it utf8 unicode support?
I tried google and said it might need a nls-utf8?. Ko , does it mean i can copy and paste any nls-utf8.ko into the module folder?
Please help.

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Try the attached file
Same procedure, copy the file to /system/lib/modules/ and chmod 644 insert with insmod (like first post for other modules)

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NielDK said:
Try the attached file
Same procedure, copy the file to /system/lib/modules/ and chmod 644 insert with insmod (like first post for other modules)
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thanks NielDK!
I kind of get it work, but I got some error while running the gscript.
I just wonder can you or FrAsErTaG explain to me why does it happen when running gscript please?
i got these error if I do not manually put the ko files in the models folder
unable to chmod /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko: no such file
stderr: chgrp: not found
stderr: insmod: can't open 'system/lib/modules/tun.ko'
if I use rootexplorer to copy the files into /system/lib/modules then run the script,
everything seems fine then
Another question is that do we need another series of KO files after a system update?
Or we can just use these files and CIFS should work ?
thanks heaps again~

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Sounds like you are not root. Did you use su command in shell?
Also the order of insmod the .ko files are important.
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so what does it to exactly?

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NielDK said:
Sounds like you are not root. Did you use su command in shell?
Also the order of insmod the .ko files are important.
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my PLAY is rooted, i can use ROOT explorer to copy/paste the file, and the CIFS manager work
but that's the error I got when running the scripts
insmond goes through without error, unless I run the script again, and it ll say that the file is already exsisted.
the 2.3.3 update service seems out for some country, eg: Hong Kong, but not rootable.
Thanks.
AriStar said:
so what does it to exactly?
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it let you mount a network drive, like the "MAP Network Drive" function in microsoft windows explorer.

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You don't need the insmod when using cifs manager. it will issue those. root explorer is fine to use, you really just want to achieve getting the modules in place. I like adb shell, but that is individual .
it may work on system updates, if kernel version don't change, else a recompile is needed.
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i think u can add (the insmod lines) to:
/system/etc/hw_config.sh
so that they are executed at every boot
P.S.: from which baseband/FW sources have u compiled these?
cause on the X10 we had similar modules and those are specific to baseband/kernel sources from which they ware compiled
ADDITIONALLY:
u can execute:
Code:
lsmod
to verify that the modules are live or not (stuck at loading)

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Modules are compiled for 2.6.32.9 kernel. From Sony Ericsson available sources. Baseband doesn't matter to my knowledge.
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NielDK said:
Modules are compiled for 2.6.32.9 kernel. From Sony Ericsson available sources. Baseband doesn't matter to my knowledge.
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seeing the 2.3.3 update is same kernel version, once this is rooted these modules should still work FYI.
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